eSports startup raises $20 million by pitching AI to win over ARK Invest
Lucra Sports raised $20 million Series B led by ARK Invest after founder Dylan Robbins front‑loaded AI in his pitch, despite the company’s non‑AI gaming platform.
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Convective Capital raises $85 million to fund disaster resilience startups
Convective Capital closes an $85 million fund to back startups that manage physical-world disaster risk, expanding from wildfire-only firetech into timber, AI home design, drone inspection and commodity insurance.
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Ai search startups are blowing up
Exa Labs and Parallel Web Systems raise $250 M and $100 M respectively, joining a wave of AI‑search startups as Amazon, LinkedIn and Reddit also roll out AI‑driven discovery tools.
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Dust raises $40m to push enterprise AI past the single-player era
Paris and San Francisco-based Dust has raised $40m to transition enterprise AI from individual assistants to collaborative, multiplayer workspaces used by over 3,000 organizations.
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Cerebras makes biggest US tech IPO since snowflake, paving way for trillion‑dollar AI listings
Cerebras raised $5.55 bn at a $95 bn valuation, becoming the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake and signalling a wave of trillion‑dollar AI listings from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Nectar Social raises $30 million series a led by menlo ventures
Nectar Social secured $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures, launching its AI‑driven marketing OS with customers like Liquid Death, Figma and e.l.f. Beauty.
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Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Thrive Capital, the VC firm behind OpenAI, has invested $100 million in Shopify, seeing AI-driven commerce as an undervalued opportunity despite the e-commerce stock's 40% drop.
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Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark, but VC Eric Vishria almost didn't take the meeting
Benchmark invested roughly $270 million in Cerebras across early and later rounds; at first-day IPO prices the stake was worth over $5 billion. The story of how Eric Vishria almost skipped the meeting that started it…
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Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre‑seed to build an AI social network in iMessage
Series, a Yale‑founded iMessage‑based social network, closed a $5.1 million pre‑seed round and reports 82 % Day‑30 retention across 750+ campuses.
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Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney exit
Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as an advisor one month after stepping down as Disney CEO, returning to the VC firm where he held a venture partner role in 2022.
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FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation
FluidStack is negotiating a $1 billion raise at an $18 billion valuation, driven by its $50 billion Anthropic data centre partnership and explosive growth in AI compute demand.
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Pillar Raises $20M Seed Round Led by a16z to Democratize Commodity Risk Management
Pillar, an AI-driven platform for commodity risk management, secures $20M in seed funding led by a16z to expand access to hedging tools for SMEs.
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Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
